Why was Amazon heading to court to challenge the US Department of Defense's decision to award its $10bn winner-takes-all JEDI IT project to Microsoft rather than to, well, AWS?
“We’re in the middle of an act of litigation so there’s a limited amount I can say about it, but … we feel pretty strongly that it was not adjudicated fairly,” said Jassy. “If you do a truly objective and detailed apples to apples comparison of the platforms you don’t end up in the spot where that decision was made.
“Most of our customers tell us that we’re a couple of years ahead both with regard to functionality and maturity. I think we ended up with a situation where there was significant political interference.” Jassy claimed that having “a sitting president who’s willing to share openly his disdain for a company,” namely the Jeff Bezos-owned Amazon, makes it “really difficult for government agencies including the DoD to make an objective decision without fear of reprisal.”
Bezos also owns The Washington Post, which has drawn Trump's ire in the past, as well as Amazon.
Does Jassy have a point or is this just sour grapes?
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Wednesday December 11 2019, @09:33PM
Yeah, that's pretty much the way it has always been.
It depends upon what the malfunction is as to at what level/where the repairs can or must be carried out at, ranging from Field-level to Depot. Depot is the highest level, and means it's sent to the repair depot responsible to be forwarded to manufacturer, rebuilt at depot, or lossed. For any piece of gear there is some maintenance manual which contains a table specifying what level a given repair is to be carried out at. For a lot of gear G.I. Joe or Johnny Dumbass isn't just risking his or her neck on his or her skill, but that of others as well, so they don't want Joe or Johnny trying to "fix" it. So there's a lot of repairs which are specified as depot level.
As to "don't have a large supply of spares," that is either the fault of the DoD testing apparatus or for procurement (read budget, read Congress/Executive) for not ensuring adequate supply in the face of breakage.
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